Liturgy

Community Liturgy

Thank you to Year 8 students for their preparation of this morning’s Community Mass. Next Friday, students in Year 10 will prepare the Liturgy – and their families are especially welcome.

Community Liturgy summary

  • Where:                 College Chapel
  • Time:                     8:00am – 8:30am
  • When:                   every Friday in term time

Sacrament Program 

CONGRATULATIONS

… to all the Year 6 students who will be confirmed in their parishes this weekend.  They will celebrate the sacrament with their family and their parish community – having been well prepared in class.  Let us keep them in our hearts and prayer this weekend as they take this important step in their growth as a Christian.

 

Greg Briede

Oliver Defrancesco

Isabella Desiati

Henry Gooch

Amelia Hennessy

Torren Jakovich

Lola Kenny

Cooper Matera

Finn O’Donnell

Lana O’Gorman

Tom Townsend

Ruby Verleg

Austin Vujcich

Ethan Williams

 

… to the Year 3 students who, with their families, celebrated the sacrament of Reconciliation in the parish of St Cecilia’s, Floreat, recently.

Gianmarco Bergomi

Grace Czajko

Kiran Finn

Charlotte Fry

Grace Fry

Zoe Hipolito

Evelyn Jackson

Samuel Jukic

Isaac McCready

Isaac Nikoloski

Emily Rintoul

Lewis Soares

Jack Turner

Zara Zidar

 

If you have any other questions about the Sacrament Program:

GOOD NEWS for: Feast of Pentecost

“As the Father sent me, so I send you: Receive the Holy Spirit.”

 John 20:19-23

The reflection for this Sunday’s Gospel is part of a longer homily by Jesuit priest, Fr Richard Leonard. Fr Richard Leonard SJ is the Director of the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting, is a member of the Australian Catholic Media Council and is author of Preaching to the Converted, Paulist Press, New York, 2006.

 

… We know from the first Pentecost and from our own experience that the Spirit works in

unpredictable AND ordinary ways. From the Acts of the Apostles we learn that where the Spirit of God is active all sorts of gifts are present:

- boldness to stand up for what we believe;

- the ability to hear and listen;

- an end to fear that locks us in on ourselves;

- confidence in the salvation won for us in Christ;

- fidelity to Jesus' commandment to love;

- clarity about what's true; and

- an ‘at homeness' with God.

 

The problem for many of us is working out where the Holy Spirit is leading us. This requires the gift of the discernment of spirits.

St Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, left the church a guide for working out how we can tell if and where the Holy Spirit is leading us. One summary of them goes like this:

1. Don't make a decision when you're down. Let the crisis pass and take time to weigh all the options.

2. The Holy Spirit enables us to let go of our unhealed past and not live in the unknown future. The Holy Spirit draws us to deal with the here and now, as it is, not as we may like it to be.

3. The Holy Spirit frees us up to bring out into the open anything we keep buried in the dark. There is nothing that has ever happened to us that is beyond the Spirit's healing.

4. The Holy Spirit breaks down isolation and draws us into community with other people.

5. Be careful of things that appear too perfect, they sometimes have a sting in the tail and can be destructive.

6. Be guarded about all things that are urgent. The Holy Spirit brings a sense of perspective to problems.

7. The Holy Spirit is always present where compassion and forgiveness are demonstrated.

Not bad for a guy who died in 1556.

 

So is God's promise to abide with us come what may. And living in the power and love of the Spirit and claiming the Spirit’s direction is an intensely practical affair.

 

It is with this type of confidence that can sing the ancient chant,

‘Come O Holy Spirit fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in us the fire of your love.

Send forth your spirit and we will be recreated and you will renew the face of the earth.’

 

© Richard Leonard